Su&&nna H the verb hRB the simple for that, A.V.; to for and told, A.V.; and 11enl!8 of "inquiring." The ola.sl!ioal word told him, ,aying for eaying, A.V.; What are for "examining" and eapeoially by torturo, thou about t,o do t for Take heed what thou is l£•.,.ii(•1v. By H<>urging (µiia"T1(w), The dout,A.V. p.,1..,,,.,£ wu in Latiu the flagellum, the Ver. 27.-And for then, A.V.; and he ,aid most severe implement of flogging, though for he ,aid, A.V. even with the lighter flirga, the rod of Ver. 28.-Citizen,hip for Jreedoin, A.V.; the liotor, slaveB and othlll'II were beaten to am a Roman for taaB free, A.V, A great death (mtzu'l ad neoem). It was not lawful sum (1ro>.>.oii 1<<<f>a>.alou). The word is only to beat a Rom&ll oitizen even with the virga found here in the New Testament in the (~r1/3aos); eh. xvi. 22, SS, 87, notes. The sense of a" sum of monev," but is so used µ<1a-n(, or l!OOurge, Wal! that with which our in claeeioa.l writers. Citizen.ship; 1ro>.,.,../a, Lord wu soourged at the bidding of Pilate for "freedom of the oity," in Xenopbon, (Matt. xxvii. 26, where <f>pa-y,M@a-u is from lElian, Polybius, Dion Co.eeius, etc., 11nd 3 the Latin flagellum; Mark x. 84; Luke Mnoo. iii. 21. Dion Cassius (ls:. 17) relates xvi ii. 38; John m. I). Doubtless Lysias that MeBSalina, the wife of the Emperor had not undel'lltood Paul's Hebrew speech, Claudius, used to sell the freedom of the &lld so had not known what it was which city, and that at first ebe sold it (µ.,..,<1>.0,11 provoked so fieroe an uproar among the -xp11µ,i.,.o,v) for a very high price, but tl111t people. afterwards it became very cheap. In all Ver. 25.- When they had tied him up with probability Lyeiae b11d so purchased it, and U.e tJwng• for as they bound him with thongs, in consequence took the name of Claudius A.V. When they had tied him up, et.o. (Renan, • St. Paul,' p. 524). I am a Roman This dOeB not seem to be a right rendering. bom. It is not known bow St. Paul's nponlv"' ce.n only mean " to stretch out family acquired the Roman citizeuship. bcforo," or " expose to the action," of any- Ver. 29.-They then whio/1 were about to thing, when ta.ken in a literal sense; lµ&s, ezamine him straightway departed from him agaia, more nature.Uy means the " thong" for then straightway they departed from him or ••lash" of a whip or eoourge than a which should ha'lle examined him, A. V. ; when thong to bind a man with; indeed, it is for after, A. V. Had bound him (~11 a;/,.,.bv thought to be etymologically connooted with li•li•1<ws), 11s related in eh. xxi. 33. 'E,cb.,uO'e #'ll6'Tl£, Meyer, therefore, rightly under- lie8Tjva,: "Fe.cinue est vinciri oivem Ro- .stands the passage to mean when they he.d man um," Cioero, in •Verrem,' v. 66 stretched him on the stake ready to receive (quoted by Meyer). the scourging. Ill it lawful, etc. ? Paul Ver. 30.-But on for on, A. V.; desiring to now pleada his privileges as a Roman know for because he would ha'lle kno'!Dfl, A.V. , citizen, just in time to stop the outrage, 1.oosed him for l.oosed him from his bands, A.V. remembering, no doubt, the terror inspired and T.B.; the council for their council, in the Philippian magistru.tee when they A. V. and 'f .R. ; to come together for t,o appear, found they had beaten with rods e.n uncon- A. V. and T.B. Brought Paul down; from demned Roma.n eituen (see eh. xvi. 38). the castle to the council-room below, either trnoondemn.ed (luamu,pl"To11s); eh. xvi. 37. to the hall Gazith or to some other place of OnlJ found in these two passages in the meeting. Lysie.e probably still kept Paul New Testament, e.nd nowhere else. a prisoner through the night, on acoount of Ver. 26.-.hid u,herl for u,hn, A.V.; it the excited state of the people.
HOMILETICS. Ven. 1~.-TM u.pol,ogy. It was a very remarkable promise which our Lord made to hie apostles, when, forewarning them that they should be delivered up to councils, e.nd brought before kings and rulers for hie sake, he added, " But when they so deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but wbtsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye; for it is not ye that speak. but the Holy Ghost" (Mark xiii 9-11). It is impossible not to see a fulfil- ment of this promise in St. Paul's apology delivered from the castle stairs at Jerusalem to an infuriated and bloodthirsty mob. A Jewish riot had something terrific in it, l!OID8th1Dg dreaded even by the iron-minded Romans. The featurP.s all contorted with paasion the large eyes starting out of their sockets, the savage grinding of the teeth, the nC:ce cries, the wild throwing of handfuls of dust into the air, the tossing and waving of their garments with an unbridled violence, gave a demoniac aspect to such riot.en (Renan, p. 524). Paul had just eoJD.e out of ~he thick of such a mob. Jle bad cm. :un. 1-80.] THE AOTB 011' THE APOS'rLts. Hl7